Marquette Park
Marquette Park, originally called Lake Front Park, is a municipal park completely surrounded by Indiana Dunes National Park. Its primary features include 1.4 miles of Lake Michigan beaches, inland ponds, sand dunes, wetlands, a lagoon, and indigenous oak savanna.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: park in Gary, United States of America
- Address: 1 North Grand Boulevard, Gary, IN 46403
Places of Interest
Highlights include Miller Town Hall and Miller station.
Miller Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Visviva, Public domain.
The Miller Town Hall is a two-story brick building in the Miller Beach community in Gary, Indiana, in the United States. It was constructed to serve as the administrative building for the town of Miller, incorporated in 1907, and was used for that purpose until Miller's annexation into Gary in 1918.
Miller station
Railway station
Photo: Jacob G., CC BY-SA 2.0.
Miller is a train station in Gary, Indiana, serving the South Shore Line commuter rail system. It serves the community of Miller Beach and is one of three South Shore Line stations within the municipal boundaries of Gary. Miller station is situated 2 miles southwest of Marquette Park.
Long Lake
Lake
Photo: hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Long Lake is a large interdunal wetland in the Indiana Dunes region of Northwest Indiana. It was originally approximately 8 miles in length, but has been shortened due to development and drainage. Long Lake is situated 2 miles east of Marquette Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Miller Beach and Ogden Dunes.
Miller Beach
Quarter
Photo: Takingactioningary, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Miller Beach is a neighborhood of Gary, Indiana on the southernmost shore of Lake Michigan. First settled in 1851, Miller Beach was originally an independent town.
Ogden Dunes
Village
Photo: ONUnicorn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ogden Dunes is a town in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan, within Indiana Dunes National Park and nearly surrounded by the city of Portage. Ogden Dunes is situated 3 miles east of Marquette Park.
Aetna
Quarter
Aetna is a neighborhood in northeastern Gary, Indiana, south of Miller Beach and east of Interstate 65. As of 2000, the neighborhood had a population of 4,942, which was 83% black and 11% white. Aetna is situated 3 miles southwest of Marquette Park.
Marquette Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Lake County, Northwestern Indiana, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.61953° or 41° 37′ 10″ northLongitude
-87.24677° or 87° 14′ 48″ westElevation
594 feet (181 metres)Operator
GaryNamed after
Jacques MarquetteOpen location code
86HJJQ93+R7OpenStreetMap ID
way 431436730OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
“Marquette Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Marquette Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, Indiana)”
- Cebuano: “Marquette Park”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Marquette Park”. Photo: chicagogeek, CC BY-SA 2.0.